{"id":56,"date":"2017-08-31T14:26:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T14:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice-v2\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2023-10-12T13:38:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T13:38:47","slug":"table-of-contents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith and Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2018\/07\/Faith-and-Practice-217x300.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-172\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2018\/07\/Faith-and-Practice-217x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2018\/07\/Faith-and-Practice-217x300.png 217w, https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2018\/07\/Faith-and-Practice-217x300-100x138.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a>Faith and Practice<\/em> includes advice on procedures within the faith, membership, current practice for conducting meeting business and numerous quotations from Friends on belief, worship, concerns, leadings, and testimonies. <a href=\"https:\/\/quakerbooks.org\/products\/faith-and-practice-pym-2018\/\">Quakerbooks.org is currently selling copies of\u00a0<em>Faith and Practice<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<section id=\"search-2\" class=\"widget widget_search amr_widget\"><div class=\"widget-wrap\"><h3 class=\"widgettitle widget-title\">Search Faith &#038; Practice<\/h3>\n<form class=\"search-form\" method=\"get\" action=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/\" role=\"search\" itemprop=\"potentialAction\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/SearchAction\"><label class=\"search-form-label screen-reader-text\" for=\"searchform-2\">Search this website<\/label><input class=\"search-form-input\" type=\"search\" name=\"s\" id=\"searchform-2\" placeholder=\"Search this website\" itemprop=\"query-input\"><input class=\"search-form-submit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Search\"><meta content=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/?s={s}\" itemprop=\"target\"><\/form><\/div><\/section>\n\n<hr \/>\n<section id=\"pages-2\" class=\"widget widget_pages amr_widget\"><div class=\"widget-wrap\"><h3 class=\"widgettitle widget-title\">Table of Contents<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-56\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/\">Faith and Practice<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-57\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/foreword\/\">Foreword<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-59\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/preface\/\">Preface<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-60 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/experience-and-faith\/\">Experience and Faith<\/a>\n<ul class='children'>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-61\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/experience-and-faith\/the-light-within\/\">The Light Within<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-62\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/experience-and-faith\/meeting-worship\/\">Meeting for Worship<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-65\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/experience-and-faith\/prayer\/\">Prayer<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-66\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/experience-and-faith\/friends-scripture-living-faith\/\">Friends, Scripture and Our Living Faith<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-168\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/experience-and-faith\/discernment-guidance-spirit\/\">Discernment of the Guidance of the Spirit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-68 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-practice-daily-life\/\">Faith Reflected in Practice and Daily Life<\/a>\n<ul class='children'>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-69\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-practice-daily-life\/community-life\/\">Community Life<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-70\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-practice-daily-life\/concerns-leadings-testimonies\/\">Concerns, Leadings and Testimonies<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-73\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-practice-daily-life\/discernment-clearness-and-decision-making\/\">Discernment, Clearness and Decision-making<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-76\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-practice-daily-life\/friends-and-education\/\">Friends and Education<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-77\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-practice-daily-life\/friends-witness-world\/\">Friends Witness in the World<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-79\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-practice-daily-life\/personal-life\/\">Personal Life<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-80\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-practice-daily-life\/life-passages\/\">Life Passages<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-82\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-practice-daily-life\/personal-relationships\/\">Personal Relationships<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-83 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/\">Faith Reflected in Our Organization<\/a>\n<ul class='children'>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-84 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/friends-meetings\/\">Friends Meetings<\/a>\n\t<ul class='children'>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-85\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/friends-meetings\/individual-friends-meeting\/\">The Individual and the Friends Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-86\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/friends-meetings\/nurture-meeting-community\/\">Nurture of the Meeting Community<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-87\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/friends-meetings\/guidance-meeting-affairs-named-roles\/\">Guidance of Meeting Affairs\u2014Named Roles<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-88\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/friends-meetings\/committees-of-the-meeting\/\">Committees of the Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-90\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/friends-meetings\/membership\/\">Membership<\/a><\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-92 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/quarterly-meetings-2\/\">Quarterly Meetings<\/a>\n\t<ul class='children'>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-93\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/quarterly-meetings-2\/functions-organization-quarterly-meetings\/\">Functions and Organization of Quarterly Meetings<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-94\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/quarterly-meetings-2\/guidance-and-assistance\/\">Guidance and Assistance<\/a><\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-95 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/philadelphia-yearly-meeting\/\">Philadelphia Yearly Meeting<\/a>\n\t<ul class='children'>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-96\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/philadelphia-yearly-meeting\/sessions-yearly-meeting\/\">Sessions of Yearly Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-97\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/philadelphia-yearly-meeting\/involvement-philadelphia-yearly-meeting\/\">Involvement in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-170 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/communication-intervisitation-changes-formal-relationships\/\">Communication, Intervisitation and Changes in Formal Relationships<\/a>\n\t<ul class='children'>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-98\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/communication-intervisitation-changes-formal-relationships\/sharing-information-meetings\/\">Sharing Information with Other Meetings<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-99\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/communication-intervisitation-changes-formal-relationships\/intervisitation\/\">Intervisitation<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-100\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/communication-intervisitation-changes-formal-relationships\/growth-changes-meetings\/\">Growth and Changes in Meetings<\/a><\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-171\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/faith-reflected-organization\/revising-faith-practice-2\/\">Revising Faith and Practice<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-103 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/historical-background\/\">Historical Background<\/a>\n<ul class='children'>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-104\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/historical-background\/1-beginnings-1652-1689\/\">Beginnings: Circa 1650-1690<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-106\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/historical-background\/2-consolidation-withdrawal-1689-circa-1800\/\">Consolidation and Withdrawal: Circa 1690-1800<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-107\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/historical-background\/3-schism-and-reform-circa-1800-1900\/\">Schism and Reform: Circa 1800-1900<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-108\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/historical-background\/4-reconciliation-circa-1900-1955\/\">Reconciliation: Circa 1900-1955<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-109\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/historical-background\/unity-amidst-diversity-1955-2000\/\">Unity Amidst Diversity: 1955-2000<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-110\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/historical-background\/2000-the-present\/\">2000\u2013The Present<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-111 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/friends-and-some-of-their-organizations\/\">Friends and Some of Their Organizations<\/a>\n<ul class='children'>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-112\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/friends-and-some-of-their-organizations\/alphabetical-listing-variety-friends-organizations\/\">Alphabetical Listing of a Variety of Friends Organizations<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-113\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/friends-and-some-of-their-organizations\/friends-affinity-organizations\/\">Friends Affinity Organizations<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-114\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/friends-and-some-of-their-organizations\/quaker-periodicals\/\">Quaker Periodicals<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-115\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/friends-and-some-of-their-organizations\/ecumenical-interfaith-work\/\">Ecumenical and Interfaith Work<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-116 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/extracts-writings-friends\/\">Extracts from the Writings of Friends<\/a>\n<ul class='children'>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-117\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/extracts-writings-friends\/advices\/\">Advices<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-119\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/extracts-writings-friends\/extracts-experience-faith\/\">Extracts on Experience and Faith<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-121\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/extracts-writings-friends\/extracts-faith-reflected-practice-daily-life\/\">Extracts on Faith Reflected in Practice and Daily Life<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-123\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/extracts-writings-friends\/extracts-faith-reflected-organization\/\">Extracts on Faith Reflected in Our Organization<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-124 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/\">Guidelines and Procedures<\/a>\n<ul class='children'>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-125 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/general-queries\/\">General Queries<\/a>\n\t<ul class='children'>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-126\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/general-queries\/deepening-faith-meeting-worship\/\">Deepening Our Faith: Meeting for Worship<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-128\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/general-queries\/nurturing-our-community\/\">Nurturing Our Community<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-130\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/general-queries\/grounding-transformed-lives\/\">Grounding for Transformed Lives<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-131\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/general-queries\/witnessing-in-the-world\/\">Witnessing in the World<\/a><\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-132\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/guidelines-spiritual-self-assessment-meeting\/\">Guidelines for a Spiritual Self-assessment of the Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-134 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/meeting-checklist\/\">Meeting Checklist<\/a>\n\t<ul class='children'>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-135\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/meeting-checklist\/state-of-the-meeting\/\">State of the Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-136\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/meeting-checklist\/work-of-the-meeting\/\">Work of the Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-137\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/meeting-checklist\/property-and-employees\/\">Property and Employees<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-138\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/meeting-checklist\/investments\/\">Investments<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-139\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/meeting-checklist\/finance-and-budget\/\">Finance and Budget<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-140\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/meeting-checklist\/records\/\">Records<\/a><\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-141 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/queries-checklist-end-life-matters\/\">Queries and Checklist on End-of-Life Matters<\/a>\n\t<ul class='children'>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-142\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/queries-checklist-end-life-matters\/queries-for-the-individual\/\">Queries for the Individual<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-143\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/queries-checklist-end-life-matters\/queries-for-the-meeting\/\">Queries for the Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-144\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/queries-checklist-end-life-matters\/checklist-settlement-outward-affairs\/\">A Checklist for the Settlement of All Outward Affairs<\/a><\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-145 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/procedures-for-membership\/\">Procedures for Membership<\/a>\n\t<ul class='children'>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-146\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/procedures-for-membership\/application-for-membership\/\">Application for Membership<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-148\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/procedures-for-membership\/transfer-membership-another-meeting\/\">Transfer of Membership to Another Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-149\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/procedures-for-membership\/termination-of-membership\/\">Termination of Membership<\/a><\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-152 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/quaker-marriage-procedure\/\">Quaker Marriage Procedure<\/a>\n\t<ul class='children'>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-150\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/quaker-marriage-procedure\/securing-meeting-approval\/\">Securing Meeting Approval<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-151\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/quaker-marriage-procedure\/meeting-approval\/\">Meeting Approval<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-156\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/quaker-marriage-procedure\/marriage-not-care-meeting\/\">Marriage Not Under the Care of the Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-157\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/quaker-marriage-procedure\/review-responsibilities-required-good-order-quaker-wedding-ceremony\/\">Review of Responsibilities Required for the Good Order of a Quaker Wedding Ceremony<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-158\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/quaker-marriage-procedure\/the-marriage-certificate\/\">The Marriage Certificate<\/a><\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-160 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/guidelines-care-committees\/\">Guidelines for Care Committees<\/a>\n\t<ul class='children'>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-161\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/guidelines-care-committees\/guidelines-clearness-committee\/\">Guidelines for a Clearness Committee<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-162\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/guidelines-care-committees\/1-guidelines-pastoral-care-assistance-committee\/\">Guidelines for a Pastoral Care Assistance Committee<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-164\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/guidelines-care-committees\/guidelines-spiritual-care-committee\/\">Guidelines for a Spiritual Care Committee<\/a><\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-165\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/guidelines-and-procedures\/preparing-minutes\/\">Preparing Minutes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-166\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/resources\/\">Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-167\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/faith-and-practice\/sources-of-extracts-from-the-writings-of-friends\/\">Sources of Extracts Contained in the 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